As some students may know because of its heavy advertising, UMass Boston is bringing new dining options to campus. This seems to be a semesterly announcement. Last semester, students were introduced to Swirl, the new smoothie bar and various other additions. This semester, UMass Boston Dinin…
Baking and creating desserts has become a massive hobby—and even part-time profession—in the past few years. While baking has always been something necessary since Americans love sweets, and we will always need people to make them, this popularity has skyrocketed since the beginning of quara…
With the new year in full swing, resolutions may be following suit as well. Whether these resolutions are still in place, or have been long since abandoned, there’s a chance one resolution on any given college student’s list might have been to learn to cook. While learning a new skill—especi…
“Stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts.” With that in mind, we all enjoy indulging in something sweet. But at the same time, we are all preoccupied with classes, assignments, quizzes, projects, and exams. Therefore, we don’t have the time or the patience to come up with something creative…
This week I tried three different teas that are way too fancy for their own good. By that, I mean these teas have really fancy names that caught my eye. For Christmas, I got a Twinings tea sampler with one of each tea that they make. There were quite a few weird teas that came in the pack, a…
Drop, drop, drop, Tea Drops are on the menu for this week’s article!
I am always looking for new ways to drink tea, so this week I am reviewing K-Cup teas that I found on my trip to Walmart. I picked up two different kinds of tea, Twining’s Green Tea and English Breakfast Tea. Each pack came with three cups of tea and were $2 each. This is about 67 cents per …
Did you know that there’s more than just those normal pink, blue and yellow Peeps? Yup, they could not just stick with the sugar-covered marshmallow chicks and bunnies, so they expanded! I was in a CVS in some random town, and I looked over and saw brown Peeps. The first thing I thought was,…
This week, I tried three different herbal fruit teas by Twinings. Twinings of London is a tea brand that I have a lot of, and this is because for Christmas I got a box of about 60 different kinds of tea, one of each of their teas. The logical thing to do was to divide the teas into groups th…
After being “broke” long enough, I was finally able to splurge a bit and refill my tea stash. I’m not actually broke, but while I continue to save, I tend to stick by what’s in my wallet or a gift card such as Starbucks, hence the quotes. As I was in the Harvard area, I went to the David’s T…
It is not an unknown fact that I am one of the students who lives in the dorms on campus. Living there, I have access to study rooms, the Dining Commons, and the UMarket. I am also a well-known tea lover, which you have probably guessed from my weekly column. So, I decided to go down to UMar…
College students everywhere are heavily addicted to caffeine. The n…
Based on student feedback from last year, UMass Boston has added a …
For college students, finding a good cup of coffee or tea to give t…
Eating gluten-free has become a health trend in recent years, but f…
Tucked in the heart of Harvard Square, a five minute walk from the …
